Resisting nudities
Subtitle: a study in the aesthetics of eroticism
By: Florence Dee Boodakian.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780820486147
Subjects: Body, Human -- Erotic aspects; Nudity -- Social aspects; Eroticism in literature
Description: "This provocative book re-conceives the erotic and its imaginative manifestations as an aesthetic ultimately driven by the disruption of desire. Critical, philosophical, and erotic texts construct a framework for understanding the aesthetics of eroticism including a "resisting nude" grounded in a theory of absence and the psychosocial dynamic of physical and mental surveillance. Resisting Nudities offers a necessary link between the poetry of jouissance and the revolt of body and mind intrinsic to the erotic, at a key moment in our contemporary cultural landscape. Written through a poetic lens, it is a creative new analysis of what George Bataille called the most intense of human moments."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The resisting nude; title: The bare necessity of the kiss; title: The sense connection : poesis making & the erotic; title: Porn & the erotic : a border of impossibility; title: Surveilled body/surveilled mind; title: Resistance, revolt and the poetry of jouissance.